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Wednesday, July 30, 2003
Bulwer-Lytton with a laptop
I think that most bloggers tend to write in a voice that is similar to the way that they speak with allowances made to make them sound smarter than they really are. So what are we to make of someone who writes like this:
Discourse and Dissemblers
I had hoped, on Sunday, that the debate on the war begun anew by Steven den Beste might remain civil and thoughtful. Sadly, in just a few days Steven has been impugned by the likely sources, and it's ad hominem ad nauseum with the odd hackneyed, long-since-disproven shibboleth mixed in between near-run-on sentences of full-bore screeds.
Steven, why even bother to take note of some of those replies? It's not debate, it's profanity. Stick to the serious opposition, who actually do share a common interest in defeating our enemies.
A few days ago I sent him a helpful Churchill quote - most likely lost in the flurry of e-mails and, being benignly pleasant, buried under what must have been a torrent of vitriol. All the same, another one:
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill, certainly no stranger to vituperative attacks and many political losses over the course of his life. Steven, know that you are supported; when others have invested in spoiled philosophies and cannot afford to consider them wrong, it's not easy being right.
I have two theories about this. Either we have a laptop-owning Victorian living amongst us, or George Will has a lovechild which, considering his past, isn't as unlikely as it seems.
I hope to resolve this conundrum in a fortnight...
(get your dose of the real Bulwer-Lytton here)
(Added:) Good lord. It gets worse.
(Added redux): It looks like Parson Ubaldi is of a delicate nature (possibly due to the difficulties in obtaining laudanam in these stressful days). I dropped a comment off over this post which apparently caused him to come down with a case of the vapors...but not before responding, in part:
Just a bit of advice: it's probably not best for being taken seriously by filling your blog with brittle attacks against people with whom you disagree, rather than, say, challenging their arguments.
I wanted to repond by pointing out that I don't expect to be taken seriously, while on the other hand, he does. But that there is still hope for him. All he has to do is pretend that uBlog is a parody blog written by someone who fancies himself erudite and thinks that writing stilted prose is a sign of deep thought. But alas, I find myself banned from his generally unused comments section that are as barren as Ann Coulter's womb.
Jeez. You try to help someone out......
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